The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

Hltill WATER AT LON DON BRIM; I: TO.:110IIRO W. Morning .... minutes after IL I Evening 0 minutes after () Just published at 35., and in Folio at is. 6d. Part IV of SAUNDERS' POLITICAL REFORMERS, containing Portraits and Nfernoirs of GEORGE BYNG, Esq., M.P. BiglA Hon. C. P. THOMSON, M.P. grim Paintings by George Hayter, Esq.) And THOMAS WYSE, Esq., 31. P. • ~,* Parts Ito 111 may ba had of all nooksellers ; also thicL Folio Proof Impressous of tht Portraits at ss. each. Now rea:lr, No. 1., at 6d., Part I. at 25., with POIITRAIT OF PAPINEAU, THE CIVIL WAR IN THE CANADAS, With 1 4,. general and a highly interesfing Account of the Pro vinces and tlieir Inhabitants; comprising : 1. flistorict,l Fkptcli of the Progress of Settlement. 2. Re sourcel and Tra& of the Country. 3. Description of the Country and Climate. -1. Social Condition of the People, Manners, Habits, Customs. Ahmicrients, Songs, &c. 5. Religion, Educ•a tien, the Press, &c. li. Population. 7. 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The Port announces that above three hundred Conser vatives were present at the meeting held at Sir it PEEL'S I yesterday, and there can be little doubt but they mean mischief. They have become aware, by their vote against Mr. O'CONNELL, of their own strength, and they will not rest till they can exert it to gratify their own lust of office. What care they if they can once more plant themselves in Downing-street, and once more indulge a love of power and pelf for the prospect of public distrust, discontent and re bellion, which fills with alarm less selfish politicians? They were warned in the case of Mr. O'CONNELL, that they would, in the end, only degrade the House of Com mons ; but in spite of that warning they gratified their malice, and the result was to make that Assembly con temptible, as their own Journals admitted anal deplored, in the eyes of the whole world. They made the House re peat, as was remarked by the Examiner, the bit;nder of declaring that a guinea, when it sold for twenty-,;Sven shillings, was only worth one pound and one shilling, wit:: this aggravation, that their false declaration was proved on the spot to be false, and its authority was openly derided at the very moment it was enunciated. All men are not bound to be arithmeticians, even to the extent of discriminating between 28 and 21 ; hut all men are bound to be moral, and not solemnly to declare that to be false and scandalous which they know and are convinced is true, and is honour able to him who had the courage to say it. The memo rable resolution of Mr. VANSITTART only convicted the House of Commons of ignorance of arithmetic ; the resolution which the Tories hurled against Mr. O'CoN NELL offended the moral feelings of mankind. The House of Lords by its own nature, and by its conduct under the guidance of the Tories, bas been ruined in public estima tion ; and now the Tories have managed equally to de grade and lower the House of Commons. Great archi tects of ruin, unwarned by the mischief they have already accomplished, they are now again to seize the Government, not to give it up till they have brought. about that final consummation to which their system of administration in evitably leads, and to which they were approximating in 1830—a violent revolution. To that end their scheme of ruling by coercion, and in spite of the masses, naturally and necessarily leads ; and, being convinced by the experience of the last few years that concession to the popular demands, however quieting, soothing, and healing to the nation, is ad verse to their superiority, they will in future discard conces sion, and, for the preservation of their dominion, will rule with an iron hand. Whatever may be Sir WILLIAM MOLES WORTH'S expectations from the success he promises himself, our anticipations are of a very gloomy description ; for we can see nothing in the restoration of the Tories to office but long and obstinate scenes of civil strife, ending in a violent revolution. Nor are our apprehensions diminished by learning that Sir ROBERT PEEL and some of his prudent friends are averse from the course into which they are hurried by his heated ultra-partizans. Violent spirits predominate in the Tory councils, and the Baronet, in order to preserve his party together, and to remain the head of it, has been driven, according to report, to act contrary to his own judgment. Wu cannot blame him, for he and all politicians are and can be only the creatures of great party movements. They must he instruments of the masses. 'lt is a gross mistake to suppose that any Governmenthas much powerto influence the opinions of individuals. Sir ROBERT, as an intelligent individual and well-informed man, has his share of influence over public opinion, but that in the most in telligent and best informed individuals is very small. Till the philosophy of the formation of opinion be developed th e u cnce of statesmen will be much overrated ; and they illnot generally, with his timidity, openly give up their own opinion to act on those of their party. Those who wish for power, however, find this necessary ; and if the Ministers had acted with their supporters on the Ballot question, we should not now have had to lament over their weakness, to deprecate the attacks of their own allies, nor to fear the return to power of the Ultra-Tory faction. The report that Sir ROBERT has allowed his temperate judgment to be overruled, and has adopted the opinion of the ultra and violent Tories, is the chief source of our ap prehension. If he be forced into office by them, he must govern in accordance with their opinions. The Adminis tration will be c , nducted on their virulent and bigoted : , licy. It must, of necessity, be persecuting ;of necessity must :ive increased power, wealth, and influence, if pos- Thle. to the Church, the great moral utility of which is the i ' continual theme of Tory speeches. Already, as we see by _ e debates of lest night, Sir ROBERT is trammelled by the considerate conduct of his friends. Consistently, he cannot, when in office, follow up either their attacks on the prerogative which in truth he reprobated last : eight, or their principles as to the Dissenters and Ca tholics ; but he will be compelled, either to submit, or give up their support, and the Government will become powerless from a total loss of character, or he like the speeches and writings of his ultra friends, bloody, persecuting, and hated. From the success of Sir WILLIAM rialoLEswouTit's motion, or any modification of it, supported by the Tories, we can anticipate only public disasters. According to the best information we have been able to collect as to what was yesterday transacted in Privy gardenr, Sir lionEaT treated his eager followers with a loftiness of demeanour not quite consistent with his submis sion to their policy. " Confide in me, Gentlemen ; rely on what I shall propose or suggest ; be assured of success under my ~ : uidance," was the substance of the Right Hon. Baronet's exhortations to his impatient troops. At the same time he gave them to understand that he would not baulk their appetite for a fight, tillbugh under what farm of battle he is to engage, like a good General, he kept a secret. One 4 t lll ,'T only is certain, that Sir ItoncaT means to coalesce Wlth'itte.-war,u n der the I that he may, like LLIAM, rope A ITAATCPAN MOUTH, steal into place by the hoip of - tli Sir ROBERT would be moderate but _ •ilk- 7 4JL a tip4tot a the Members of the two extremes — en—have united to turn out a Government 141 UM) good both for extreme Tories and ex loaf cals. In truth, should Sir WILLIAM and Sir oiligtT succeed, the next Administration will be based on a principle of violence, and tile most pro- - 47 % .0 -4 ;14 1 :1 4' . - ek:263'er - 4) y.. Zlibt '.'essing moderate of the day will—for the sake of office—lend himself to the party which h e, b y na-1 turc, education, and position, most abhors. Am bition, like poverty, makes men acquainted with strange bed-fellows, when it thrusts Sir WILLIAM MOLESWOP.TH and Sir ROBERT PEEL into the same crib. A lust. of power like love equals all conditions, and degrades a PEEL to be the present instrument of a SIBTHORP and a MOLES WORTH. The present conduct of a few of the ultra-Radicals will not tend to remove the suspicion which a certain portion of the public entertain of their motives, nor dispel that want of confidence which the apostacy of many bye-gone patriots has excited ia - the minds of real and practical Reformers. The more violent of that party have been put down as mad nv'n or knaves, and unfortunately, for the I:onour of human nature, the history of BULDETT, and Coanwrr, and HUNT, and other public characters, dead or alive, who might he named, warrants the conclusion, that the great majority be long to the latter class. One who started in public life as a republican poet was afterwards selected to sing the praises of Royalty. Another republican in youth had the haracter afterwards of being the chief adviser of the Duke f CUMBERLAMD, that seemed more anxious to damage the Reform Bill than either WETHERELL or CROKEP. COBBETT towards the close of his career was vcrg ag rapidly to Toryism, and BeNnETT, imitating the example of his fellow-labourer in this school of violent politics, has identified himself with the party whom he for merlY denounced as oppressors and public plunderers. The 'reflecting part of the community, and more particular) , those who are desirous of cheap and good Government, are not to blame, after such instances of apostacy, in looking with extreme distrust on the political virtue of THOMPSON, and Roaauca, and MOLESWORTH. Mr. ROEBUCK is as good a resemblance as ever SOUTHEY or COPLEY was ; Colonel THOMPSON, while professing 'he utmost hatred of PEEL'S party, had been the willing instrument in returning a Tory for Marylebone; and Sir WT M . MOLESWORTH, pro fessing the same hatred, is doing all he can in his way to bring Sir ROBERT PEEL back to office. They are, in fact, doing for the Tories what the Tories could not do for them selves. For the last three years they have played into the hands of the Aristocratical party. While advocating ex treme and impracticable measures, they sat and voted with the Whigs ; they thus made the more timid Reformers be lieve that the Government and they were in unison, and drove many of that class into the ranks of the Conserva tives; and now that the two great parties in the House are nearly balanced, they throw their small weight into the Conservative scale. We can judge of men only from their actions, and must therefore come to the conclusion, that though they allege other motives, they are playing the game of all the apostates from SOUTHEY to BURDETT. To talk of bringing matters to an extremity is the height of absur dity. They have seen what the public think of their extreme policy as regards Canada, and they had much more rea son for believing that rational men would join them when advocating the independence of that' colony, than they have for supposing that any considerable portion of the community would support them in exciting a convulsion in this Aristocratic country in favour of extreme Radicalism, or Republicanism. Great Reforms have been effected by peaceable means—all rational Reformers are confident that much will yet be done in the same way ; and all men who have anything to lose by a convulsion, or anything to gain by peaceful industry, would, in case of such a crisis, sup port the two great parties in the State, who are alike op posed to the " extremities" of MoaEswoant and TROMP- The exertions made by this journal in the cause of Reform, and its independence of any sect or party, ought to be some guarantee for our candour in asserting, that the extreme opinions of a few individuals throw the greatest obstacles in the way of improvement ; that they benefit those only to whom all good Reformers have ever been opposed; and that in every possible view of their present policy we can attribute it only to something worse than folly. The Bishop of EXETER is as busy just now as a certain personage is said to be in a high wind, writing long dull letters in the daily journals, and making still longer and duller speeches in the House of Lords. Last week be at tacked the Liberal Catholic Members en masse; to-day he spits his venom at Lord Howick ; accusing the former of having committed perjury, and the latter of having ' avowed himself hostile to the bare existence of the Established Church in Ireland. The cause of all this active, bustling virulence at the present moment is very obvious. The most estimable of English Prelates— whose uniform consistency of conduct throughout life, is among the least of his recommendations —fondly imagines that the fall of the Ministers is at hand ; with the keen scent of a pointer he " snuffs afar off" the advent of their successors ; and full of this pleasing delusion, is anxious to ingratiate himself with them, by a timely show of wondrous party zeal, which he has the dexterity to veil under the mask of a pious solicitude to defend the spiritual welfare of Mother Church. There are few, however, who cannot see through this disguise, and appreciate the motives which have induced the long bottled-up wrath of the apostolic diocesan of Exeter, to effervesce and pop out in the faces of the Ca tholic Members and Lord HOWICK, just at the ♦ery mo ment when the sanguine Tories were most anxious to damage Ministers, and all who support them, in public opinion. The Bishop is a dexterous debater, and has, we willingly concede, the wish to do mischief ; but his powers are neu tralized by his public character, which, ever since his flagran trimming on the Cathelic question, has been utterly without moral influence. Let him single out for attack whichever of the Ministers or their supporters he may, public opinion will always be sure to side with the objects of his hostility, even while it does ready justice to the clever malignity that dic tated and pointed the assault. In the case of Lord Howicir, however, the Rev. Prelate's attack has not even ingenuity to recommend it ; for his letters to the Noble Lord are merely so many long stories without beginning, middle, or end—a series of " Much-ado-about-nothing"- epistles, which leave the case just where they found it, The Court of Session has just decided a case of great importance to the Church of Scotland. In 1834 the Ge nerale Assembly made a law by which Pr esbyteries were for bidden to induct any presentee to whose admission a ma jority of the parishioners, being heads of families, should object. This Act appeared to many Members of the As sembly, both lay and clerical, to trench deeply upon the rights of patrons, and it was, therefore, strenuously op posed. The law, however, passed, and though it has occasioned a good deal of bickering between the different parties whose interests have been affected by it, the present is the first case arising out of it that has been decided in a Court of Justice. The Earl of KINNOUL had, it ap pears, as patron of a Lying, presented a clergyman, Ns sessing all the requisite qualifications to the vacant benefice ; a majority of the privileged parishioners objected to the presentee ; the Presbytery sustaining the objection, re fused to ordain him ; and the Patron brings his action against them for this refusal, as an injury to him in his civil rights. This is a brief statement of the merits of Ithe case. The Judges delivered their opinions at considerable length, and, with only one dissentient voice, were decidedly of opinion that it was beyond the power of the General Assembly to pass the veto Act—that that Act is therefore a mere nullity—and, consequently, that those Presbyteries that make it the rule of their proceedings, arc guilty of breaking the law of the land. Such is the upshot of this collision bctween the civil and ecclesiastical powers ; and if it is not exactly agreeable to the feelings of the clerical body—if it does not bear out the Scottish Clergy in those high notions of independence of all temporal authority and controul which they so gene rally entertain—hut, on the contrary, clearly demonstrates that there is somewhere or other a temporal Head to the Kirk, able and willing to curb any little eccentticities into which she mly be betrayed in her old age—it must be recol lected that this is nothing more than the price which she, in common with all her allies, must pay for their unscrip total connection with the State. She 1.0. v finds in her own experience the truth of the maxim which she has so often )reached to others, that "it is impossible to serve Goo :Ind MAMMON at the same time." The Paris Journals of Sunday received this morning con tain no news of general interest on Saturday. Prince TA, LEYRAND attended- a mceitn,g of the Vrcrieli Academy, at which he delivered, viva voce, an eloquent panegyric on M. REINHART, a veteran diplomatist. The re-appearance of !he Prince on such a stage, after the world had believed THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1 838. him as dead to its affairs and feelin:rs as his deceased col- 1 league, has naturally created some stir in Paris. Lord MAIDSTONE'S motion for reprimanding Mr. O'CoN NELL is generally discussed in the leading French Jour nals. All agree that the result has been prejudicial to the honour of Parliament. They quote the reprimand of the SPEAKEE, particularly the passage in which reference is made to a Bill in progress for reforming the abuses in Election Committees, which they contend is tantamount to a jos tification of the Hon. and Learned Mcmber for Dublin. " There must have been perjury since a Committee Reform Bill is in progress," argue the ablest of these Journals, while others contend that had the House not been con scious to itself that the charge could be clearly established, it would not have suffered Mr. O'CONNELL to reiterate oithout voting his immediate confinement in Newgate or th e Tower. The result of the motion has unquestionably Undid to the degradation of the British Parliament in the pinion of our continental neighbours. '['he Corsaire, the Intelligence, and the Mode—the two trst Republican Journals—were respectively seiz,:d on 'Friday and Saturday. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, the Com mittee on the Widow of General DAMRESIONT'S Pension ; Bill, reported against the adoption of the amendments pro posed by the Chamber of Peers. The following are ex tracts from the Journals : The Garde Nationale de Marseilles publishes a letter from the French Consul at Gibraltar, containing some particulars of a dreadful gale which prevailed there from the 10th to the 14th ult., in the course of which, among others, the following British merchant vessels were totally lost :—viz., the Clan dine, master ; the Concordia, Blanckeller ; the Maria, Navella. (Neville probably) ; and the Three Brothers, Farr.try. The American brigs, the Keola, and the Eliza and Anne, were also lost, ai well as two French, two Spanish, two Sardinian, one Poi tuguese, one Tuscan, and one Greek, vessels (the latter a ship) were also wrecked. Letters from Valencia say that General Borro has obtained sense advantages over the insurgents in that province. Accounts from Murcia say that all the troops that can be spared, and all the National Guards are already in motion and ready to stop the march of Brsilio, in order that the troops which are in pursuit of him may be able to come up with him. The Council of Ministers met yesterday at eleven o'clock at night, at the Hotel of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The deliberations continued till one &clock in the morning. To-day from one to three o'clock the diplomatic body was in conference with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. COAL TRADE COMMITTEE, SUPPRESSION OF THE EVIDENCE II We are prohibited at present from continuing the im portant evidence now being taken on the monopoly, th• frauds, the extortions, and the obstructions of the Coal trade system. Yesterday our Reporter was asked by a Member of the Committee, with what object he was taking notes? He at once declared that they were for publica tion. The room was cleared. We understand that an Honourable Member, closely connected with the coal pro prietors in the North, moved that the evidence should not be permitted to go to the public through the medium of the Newspaper Puss ; and such was the composition of the Committee, that this motion was carried. Another gentleman who was taking notes, on promising that they should not be published, was permitted to remain for the purpose. The public will draw their own inferences from these facts. Prudential considerations preclude us from so doing. The Sun Newspaper (of whose extraordinary exertions we have often had occasion to speak in the warmest terms) is entitled to the thanks of every benevolent mind, for the spi rited manner in which it is writing against the London Coal Monopoly—a monopoly, be it remembered, affecting the poor only, as they, and they alone, have been lately compelled to pay at the rsta of from 40s. to 453. per ton, durin ,, the frost, in consequence of beinc , unable to lay in a stock for the winter. —Leicestershirekercury. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. •We have no arrivals this morning, with the exception of the French and Dutch mails. The general topic of conversation this morning entirely relates to the important motion which is to take place this evening in the House of Commons, relative to L - ird Glenelg. It is expected that a hard struggle will take place, and great excitement prevails in the city to know the r esult. THE FUNDS. Col:boots yesterday rooming were 02a 5, and left off at 0 , 4 03 for the Account ; opened this morning at the above price. It is evident that they do not expect Ministers to go out, otherwise the Funds would not have maintained the above price ; Exchequer Bills, 61 63 ; India Bonds, 61 63 ; Bank and India Stocks shut. Spanish, 19: a with Coupons; Portuguese, 27f 2Si; Brazilian, 75i f; Colombian, 2Si 29; Dutch Two-and.a.Half per Cents., 5111 53} ; Mexican, 9.Si 29f ; Danish, 74i 75. The East India over land express, which has been due several days past has not ytt arrived. Since the above has been written the Consol market has taken a turn, and Consols have improved from 92i 93 to fl3l. Scarce a bargain done in the Foreign Market, PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock — India Stock -- 3 per Cent. .tett. - I !Mtn 80nd:........ 62 64 ton. 3 per Cent. COll6 92 % 3, 4 % 3 South Sea StiA k ........... ...... 3)4 per Cent..........- ........ 101%,‘ , Old .Arinnities .. — atto Re 1.... New 3;4 per Cent 100 % 14 1.(% 3et Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per „mu d .. .. - Exeh. Bills, Y.l,qf ~... ..... 62 64 um clink Emig Annuttiestoexpire Ditto ........... ...NX ........ 62 6.1 pm, Jan. 5, 1860. — Ditty small ........ ......... 62 64 pm Oct. 10, 1859 l5 3-1( 1 Ditto Comm e rcial ........ - -pm . Jan. 5, 1960 — Ditto Advertised ............ - - pm Jan. 5, 1881), ... ' lank S tock ;or Accoun t X 405 —, April 5, IS°O ............ , 264 , ,, Jan. 5,157 i..... ...... „.. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds - - Bel g ian_ Bonds Ditto Account ....... ....... ..- Ditto Account - - Portuguede Bonds... .............. . 6-11,4 Brazilian }lends Ditto Account Idenos Ayres Bonds - Ditto Account .. ............ .. Ditto Account ............ - Ditto, 3 per cent.... ........... 185,14 - ' - Bonds.. 3 , 71.1 ii In Bonds ...... ....... Ditto Account ....... C >lulubian Sonde. Ditto Account ...... . ............ Russian Bones, ........... lltta Acccunt .......... Ditto Metallic ;lumbiln Binds , 1921 ~9 a sw Ditto Account I)inish Bonds .« .. — Dittntto Account .......... Spanish Bonds ............... Ditto Accuun t ...... . • ••• Ditto Bonds , IS.I ............ 1? 5, Ditto A ccw.nt ........... . ...... 19N —c. Greck Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account ......... Alexican Bonds, 5 per cent — D:tto Account .. Ditto, 6 per cent.... 2S Ditto Account ............... FLICES OF SHARES THL French, 5 per cent. 4 .er cent. ........ —t. -- 3 par cent......... — e. ...... 53 Dutch, Lt! , 4, p e r cent ......... ..• D.tto Account ............. Ditto, per ............ 10310fi Ditto Accoun: ...... ........ DAY AT ONE O'CL(CK. Per Share Paid. at 5/. pm.) 20 24 5 SJ aziltan Imperial Milling Co. (issu, St. Jul) ' Rr ditto St. John del Rey Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company l5 534 4 ornmercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 214 Dublin and 'Kilkenny Railway Company ...... Eastern Counts is Railway 3 P 3 3 Great Western Railway Company 65 0,0 10 litlß and Selby Railway Company lO Brighton Railway Company eiN Lt.ndon amt Ista4:wall Railway 61474 Ditto Scrip 111,. 2 3 26 7 London and Southampton (bowie) Railway 5 34 Lootion (grand Junction Railway 20. 2s 6d. London, Siiliisbury, and Exeter Railway 1 %itd.cheider and Birmingham Railway 7 1,17 t, I l!i Northern and asterii Railway Company E 3;i , 141,rth Midland Railway Company ...... ..... 3, 41 C 2 1 Westminster and Gremwlcll Railway Company 2 17s. fat. Southampton Dock Company 5 2 3 Australasia Rank 4O 20 34 neneral Sta:un navigation Company L radon Joint Stock bank. 674 7 HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We hear that the Sheridan packet-ship, from New York, has been ashore oX the River Dee, which no doubt has detained her arrival at Liverpool. The merchants' letters by her have been received this morning. She does not bring so late dates as previously received by the Quebec. To the present we have no political news, and the few arrivals this morning cause a very great dearth of Intelligence. Both the Lisbon arid Mexican mails were expected, they being over duo, The opinion now entertained, that Ministers will not be in a minority, has caused the British Funds to continue firm at 93 to 931 for the Ac. count, and 92i 93 for Money which continues plentiful. Exchequer Bills improved, 62 64 ; India Bonds, 02 64 ; Bank and India Stocks aro shut. The Foreign ?rfarket is very inactive—scarce a bargain done. Spanish Active, 191, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 2SI ; Three per isi ; Brazalian, 751 ; Colombian, 9,Si ; Mexican, 2.81 ; Dutch Twc-ainl-a-Half per Cents., 53, The sp eculatori are looking to this night': debate in the Commons with great anxiety. Shares not quite so good ye Aarday. Consohs tier the Account, 93 93%, ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) LONDON. Tho Committee met as usual at eleven o'clock, when Mr. Olding was examined by Mr. TnEssiona—He had looked over the accounts of Travers and Son that morning, and found no account opened for the purpose of the election. There were hundreds of sums paid in during the time, both before and alter the election. He knew of no sums paid iu by any of the Members, either to Travers' account or any other for the purposes of the election. He had all the books present and they were open for inspection. A groat many cheques were drawn by Travers and Son at the time of the election. He knew of no cheque drawn by Mr. John Travers—all were drawn in the name of Travers and Son. There was no cheque for 1001. payable to Wasters ; on the 12th of July there was one cheque paid to Croucher, 50/. ; a like sum on the 13th ; also on the 17th. '2oth July, Croucher 3001. ; 22d July, 2001.; 24th July, 2001. ; 27th July, 200/.; 28th July, 2001.; '29th July, 2001. ; 17th August, 2001. Mr. Tti Et:SWIM asked for the Waste Book, which Mr. Olding said he objected to give up the books to any inspection, as ho considered it would be betraying the confidence placed in them. The CIIAUVIAN said it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that Counsel might ask any question of the witness, but should not in. spect the books. There was no payment made to Tijou. No payment made to Parcas. In June there were 84,0001. paid to Messrs. Travers' account. Charles Brown was called, but did not answer. Mr. Massie:Ea said the time had now arrived when it was proper to discuss the question of agency. He proposed to give evidence of the declarations and acts of Mr. Croucher, as the agent of the sitting Mem bers. He had accumulated sufficient acts to prove that Mr. C. tilled that position. Mr. HAIIRTSO'N objected to such a course, as no member was responsible for any act unless it was his, own, or that of an Authorised agent. The acts of a snb-agent sould not bind him, or any indiscreet friend, actuated by party zeal, might make void any election. They had never shown Croucher at all in communication with the sitting Members. Mr. THESSIGER recapitulated the evidence at great length, and con. tended that if direct agency could be gathered from the act of any one, it was in the present case. The room was cleared for about an hour. Counsel and agents having beon again admitted, were informed that the Committee did not think that agency had been proved. Mr. Tucsstoaa then at once gave up the general case against the sitting Member, and would confine his endeavours to seat Mr. Palmer strictly to a scrutiny. As he had fully anticipated a very different de. cision from the Committee, be was not prepared to go on with the scrutiny, and would beg of the Committee then to adjourn. The Committee acceded, and accordingly adjourned till to-morrow, at eleven o'clock. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME. The Committee met this morning at 'eleven o'clock. Counsel for the petitioner having decided upon examining ffirther witnesses. Joseph Bailley was Called in—l am a clock-maker and grocer at Newcastle. I was engaged on the canvass with Mr. Miller and Mr. De Horsey. I did not solicit any votes for them, I was present when votes were asked for. I know Broomhall, a voter. I was often at the Castle Hotel, before and during the election. I saw Mr. Miller and Mr. De Horsey there. I saw Mr. Mason there also. I never had any private conversation with Mason. He might have asked me a ques tion in the Committee-room, but I don't recollect it. Was a member of De Horsey's Committee, but not of Mr. Miller's. I believe Mason was not on that Committee. I won't swear positively. A coalition between the two candidates took place, and that was, I be. lieve, bef re they canvassed together. I knew Sampson Bailley. I did not give him 100 sovereigns or 170 sovereigns. I know Shuffletbottom, the clerk of the Church. He and Sampson Bailey were together at a public house after the election. I went there to see my sort, who I was told was there. I don't recollect having had any conversation with them. My son was speaking to them in nay presence, but I don't recollect what was said I asked my son what he had got to do there ? He replied he had got something to deliver, and I said then deliver it and come away. I was a larmed at my son being there, because I understood he had something to deliver to those men for the burgesses. That was the plain truth ; I knew it was money, but I dont know the amount; it was in packages. They were either sovereigns or half sovereigns, as I saw some of them on the top of the tub. There might have been 100 sovereigns there for all I know. It has been the custom for many years for the winning and losing candidate give a sovereign to voters. Saw no book on that occasion. Next day Sampson Bailley, and Shutllebottom same to my house and inquired for my son. I don't know what their business was. I don't knew what was done with the sovereigns, and I don't know where they came from- I never saw any account of their distribution. Cross-examined by Mr. TALuor —I transacted no business at the Corn. mittee-roorn on Sunday. I was appointed on the Committee before Mr. Miller came into the town. My appointment was merely nominal. I took no part in the business of the Committee. I never saw Mr. Miller in the Committee-room except the day of the election, when it was quite full of people. When the candidates did not give the poorer voters a dinner, the custom was to give them a sovereign each. I don't recollect giving Broomhall a shil ling, but I have had frequent applications for shillings at holiday time. The women have frequently applied to me for money on these occasions. I never made any distinction between those who were voters and those who were not. The money I gave was my own. I have given money also to Badnall's voters. It is the custom of the town during - holiday time. I never received my directions from the Committee to give away these sixpences and shillings. I never asked or ex pect repayment. I never told Hayes that those who voted for Miller and De Horsey would ,have 21. each. I had no authority to say so, and it would be an abominable lie. To the best of my knowledge, I never told Hayes that this was the purest election I ever was at—that there were five on the Committee, and that two were for opening houses for the voters, and three were for giving them half.sovereigns. No such thing ever occurred in the Committee. If I said anything to Broomhall about tilling my pockets twice, it was merely to get rid of him. I think I spent between 2/. and 3/. that day. It was on the day of the canvas. I swear I did not give these shillings for the purposes ot the election ; if the election had not been on, I would mot have been there to pay it away. I said something to Hayes before it was known that there would be a contest, that if anything was to be given, I would endeavour it should be given in money instead of drink, as the town was in a bad way. I told Hayes it was the purest election I ever I knew. I voted for Miller and He Horsey. By the CHAIRMAN.—They delivered the packages of money to my son, and Shuffiebottom turned them out on the top of the tub. On my oath Ido not know who gave the money to my son. I never had it in my possession. . - By Sir C. GREY.—It was never considered that the sovereigns given after the election to the voters was bribery. It bad always been the custom to do so, T,AV!sITOS. WITHDRAWAL OF THE PETITION, At the sitting of the Committee this morning, two voters were struck ofF the petitioner's poll, thereby placing the sitting Member is a ma jority of one. Mr. EERE said, that when the investigation commenced, the petitioner thought the inquiry would probably last eight or ten days, and they were quite prepared to encounter the expense of that period. The Commit. tee had now been sitting a week, and during that period the whole num ber of cases decided was twenty, and from the mass of cases which re mained, it was hardly pos:dble to say that six weeks or two months would be sufficient to end the scrutiny. Seeing that, and knowing the awful expense of inquiries of this kind, carried on at a distance of 140 miles from the place where the witnesses resided, the petitioners had come to the conclusion that it. was neither due to the Committee, to them. selves, or to their political rival, any longer to persevere in this enquiry. They had come to this conclusion solely on the ground that they had not the pecuniary means to go on with the enquiry ; and although they had the means of protracting the enquiry for four or five days, they thought it would be unfair to Mr. Bainbridge to put him to that additional expense. Mr. KINGLAKE said the manner in which the petition had been pro secuted was such as he had no right to complain of. He had the plea sure of knowing the petitioner and the gentlemen who had conducted the proceedings ; he believed them to be men of gicat honour, infiexi_ hility, and integrity, and was confident that they would not prosecute the petition a moment after they had gi•en up all chance of success. The CHLIRMAN, on behalf of the Committee, expressed the greatest satisfaction with the conduct pursued generally throughout this exami. nation. They were perfectly satisfied with the way in which the case had been conducted, both on the one side and on the other. The Committee then deci:led that Mr. Bainbridge was duly elected — that the petition of Mr. Lee was not frivolous or vexatious, nor was the opposition thereto. YOUGH A L At the meeting of the Committee, this morning at 11 o'clock, the discussion upon the vote of Richard Walsh, yesterday objected to on the ground of non-payment of rates. The authority of the Act under which the rates were collected having been shown by the petitioner's Counsel,theCollector, Mr. Heusi y, proved that he the voter owed 6 months' rates 6 months previous to the election (for the Act allowed 6 months arrear) and that he (the Collector) had called twenty or thirty times for payment. Witness had occasion to go from Youghal at the time of the election, but left his daughter with full authority to act as his agent, and to receive payment of rates, and to give receipts in his name. For the sitting Member, a gentleman named James Brown stattel that during the election he offered to Miss Heasly, in her father's absence from the borough, a money order for the amount of rates due by Walsh, which she refused to accept. The money would have been instantly paid upon that order, if it had been accepted. The order was drawn upon a merchant in Youghal, with whom Walsh had money dealings. Witness (Browne) then offered on the part of Walsh to pay the money, to which Miss Heasley replied, " I'll not have your order or your money." Witness then left the order on the table. He considered that was payment of the rate, and told Walsh so, and sent him to the po'l. Mr. Heasley, re-examined by the Committee said that the order was not for him (Heasley) to receive the money, but for a person relined Penrose to cad on Mr. Lamb (the merchant) who would pay. But Penrose would have nothing to do with it, and Lamb afterwards told witness that he would not have paid the money if the order had been tendered. Witness had not tendered the order since, nor had he ap plied to Welch for payment. Witness had voted for Mr. Nichol, the petitioner. The vote was decided to he a good one, leaving the sitting Member still in a majority of one. BELFAST. The Committee were engaged in continuing the scrutiny into Lord Belfadt's votes, which is likely to occupy all day. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY The Lokd Chancellor, the Marquis of Thomond, and Lord Braybrook, sat in the House of Lord!, to hear Scotch appeals. IUNLOP 0. LILMTIEUT. The arguments in this appeal were conc!uded, and the Lord Chan. cellor postponed giving judgment till Monday. MACDONALD V MACDONALD. Thi s appeal, which involved a dry point of Scotch law with respect to the construction of a deed of entail, tvas then proceedat with. The case is likely to occupy several (says in argument, and is only interesting to the parties concerned. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY. The AfasrEß of the Rot.Ls was occupied the whole of the morning with conieat petitions and other eaucet. WHITE V. SMITH. On the application of Mr. SPkNCE this cause was ordered to stand over in consequence of the solicitor, whose office has been partially de stroyed by the calamitous fire in the Temple, being unable, its yet, to ascertain whether the papers in the cause have been saved. yjCE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY I 7.r THE MUTER OP THE LUDLOW CHARITIES. The arguments in this case, which commenced yestesday, were re, sullied to-day. The case came before the Court upon motion, on behalf of the relatntl in the information, for the purpose of obtaining an junction to restram the titt.enfiants, tae Mail(); and fArporation of from receiving the ten's of 'pertain riropty in 'l.idlOw. sonfle time since the ease came before the court - upon demurrer put in by the dc ,f tju i,r,t3 the infotmatjon, arid, aftet heiving arguments at 'l,ngth, his Honour ordered that demusr,r to be 0 . /m:O4X' Upon that oecasion, a proposition was made, by which it was hoped the matter would be settled. No arrangement, however, having been come to, it became necessary to make the present motion. The Information THREE O'CLOCK. SHIPWR ECK 'NEAR MACHYNILLETII. The Trader boat had been early in the morning dispatched to the e ger se n tti Derwcn-las with a cargo of coals, and had procee b d r e e d ez a e con siderable power ful,derab retrain le h s wayl : e r o s i t i ar b t e i starting-place; attempted- i Ivoyage,t return, when, finding n fid s r u 'rud d ia d nd , l4 : e n squall ti uld o e ti :t e a r k l i n il i g n c s ; i t i andt hisu te. —Shrewsbury vessel down, and the unfortunate crew perished in their at tempts to save the vessel and its cargo. One of the men thus lost is the parent of eight child:cn, the eldest not eight years, totallyeecrkf o s r o n old Chronicle. , . t l l' a e g left youngest a sis fe S a c n a d r e t f rt Yl .o Y t h children ree ' p v \Vest, the ped,24trban, yesterday of stalking 40 miles in 3 hours, half the distance backwards. On finishing the last mile, he d i a d s. two minutes and a half to spare. Owing to the bad state of the toads, he was much distre;sed, particularly o n his completing the 36th mile. - . CHURCH RATE:S.—After an interval of some four or five years the Tories have stolen A march h n their ad versaries, and the church-raie tos, it is said, bowl 14id in the town of Lanc.:.ster. The marriage between the Right HAi, the Earl of Aran and Miss Elizabeth M. Napier, C. 8., daughter of Col. Napier, C. 8., was solemnised on Thursday last at Freshford, Somerset. The Hon. and Rev Annesley Gore officiated at the ceremony, and a great number of relatives of the noble bridegroom and ace,mplished bride acre present was filed for the purpose of having certain charity property, granted by a charter of King Edward the 6th, to the Corporation of Ludlow, for the establiFhment of a Grammar-school there, for the relief of the impotent, and for the maintenance of a preacher in the town, properly administered. From the Information, it appeared that the Corporation had mixed up the charity funds with their own, and the Municipal Act, depriving Corporations of their trust pro perty, it became necessary to distinguish in the present instance betwem what was the real property of the Corporation, and what they held in trust ; the property in the present instance the Corporation con tented belonged absolutely to them, ,nd was not held under trust ; the relators submitted that under the Charter the property was clearly trust property, Are], therefore, that they were cotitled to have the injunction to restrain the Corporation f.om receiving the rents, which they were proceeding to do. Mr. KNIGHT BkITCR, Mll J Aeon, and Mr. Urn - D, who appeared for the relators, and Mr. WIC:RAM, who was Counsel for the Corporation, were heard yesterday. Mr. Romti.r.v followed on the same side as 51L WIGRAM to-day; when the Learned Counsel was about to address the Court, The VICE-CIIANCELLO2 inquired whether the supplement.3l informa ion had been filed. ' Mr. LLOYD said, that in consequence of the Attorney-General'.; chambers having been burnt down last night, they had been unable to get his fiat to the information, but that would be done to.day. Mr. K. BRUCE said, when the supplemental information was tilLd it was his intention to move in both eases for a Receiver. Ilia HONOUR, upon this, ordered the motion to stand over, in order that the parties might file a supplemental information, the Corp -ration in the meantime not to receive the rents, or proceed to recover them by distress. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) George Fores was brought up for examination, charged with com mitting a forgery upon the Benevolent Banking Institution, in deposit iug the sum of U. 55., the property of Emma Cox, his servant. Mr. Bostic, solicitor to the Bank, acquainted Mr. Twyford that the Managers of this lnstitmtion were most anxious to discharge their duty to the public by proceeding with the prosecution, but, fortunately for the prisoner, the Books necessary to be produced to substantiate the charge were destroyed in the conflagration which happened in the Tem ple last night, and consequently it was found impossible to have the case sent for the decision of a jury. Mr. TWYFORD observed that the prisoner might consider himself very lucky, as the evidence in every other respect was complete, and ordered him to be forthwith discharged. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MAncit s.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Came down from the River and proceeded—The Pacific, Grant, for Valparaiso ; Emma, White, for Jamaica; Governor Doherty, Norway, for Algoa Bay; Ceres, Ruben, for Cadiz; Albion, Heuzell, for Constantine; Marga rita, Monkaman, for Cadiz; Hawk, Tarman, for Bayonne; her Ma jesty's shin Volage, schooner, Windier, for Westward. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH s.—Wind N.N.E to W., light airs and fine. — Arrived the Betsy, Christie, from Messina for Leith, with lass of fore yard, bulwarks, &c. ; Emily, Welch, from Youghal; Rose, Ellis, from Waterford. Sailed the Hope, Bundy, for London. GLOUCESTER, MARCH s.—Arrived the Brothers, Dias, from Li-ata. HOLYIIZAD, 51aReis s.—Arrived off port the Lady Cornwall, Poe, from Nassau. FALIIOUTU, MARCH 4.—Wind W. S. W. to S. V 4., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Elizabeth, —, from Swansea. Sailed the Romona (steamer) Cruize, and returned, the wind having come round to W. S. W. ; Presi. dent, —, for Antwerp ; Dovecot, —, for Antwerp; Diton, and John, for Jersey. PLYMOUTH, ILtacti 4.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Prudentia, from Tarragona. Sailed the Trois Antis, Angel, for Havre. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 6.—Wind N. N. W., light.—Arrived the Sheri dan, Pierce, from New York, after being on ishore near the entrance of the River Dee ; and Adrian, Rogers, from New Orleans. Arrived A* port, the Edinburgh, —, from New Orleans; Lelas, Richards, from Charleston ; George Washington, from New York ; Carina, from Trieste ; and Sultan, from Calcutta. Sailed the Superb, for Baltimore ; William Goddard, for New Orleans ; Lyons, for New Orleans ; Troy, for Mobile ; and Mersey, for St. John's, New Brunswick. The Nightingale, Cruickshank, (ruin Liverpool to Deme rara, which put in here on the 2d inst., is discharging. The Isabella, Patterson, from Cardiff to London, put in hare yester. day, to stop a leak. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE in the TEMPLE About half-past five this morning a most destructive and alarming fire broke out in the Chambers of Mr. Maule, the eminent Queen's Counsel, and one of the Members for the county of Carlow, at No. 14, Paper-buildings in the Temple. It is said that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had been up late the previous night, being engaged in preparing for circuit, and that in retiring to rest, he forgot to extinguish the candle which he had left lighted in his sitting room. He was alarmed by the smoke which, which towards morning had nearly filled his bed-room, and he had hardly time to escape, and give the alarm before the entire furniture of /the apartment was in flames. The fire-engine belonging to the Temple was instantly brought to the spot, but from the difficulty of procuring a sufficient supply of water, and the astonishing rapidity with which the fire spread, the whole of the building, with those immediately adjoining it, were soon •in flames. ' Several other engines soon afterwards arrived, and being most effectually worked by a party of constables of the F division the progress of tae fire, which had now extended to Nos. 12 and 13, was at length checked, but not until the whole of these houses were reduced to ruins. Luckily no lives have been lost, and the only acci dent that we could hear of was a severe injury sustained by one of the firemen belonging to the West of England Insurance Office, upon whom some of the burning rafters fell. He was immediately conveyed to the station-house in Water loo-road, and is, we understand, doing well. The actual amount of property consumed is not considerable ; but it is said that a number of valuable deeds and papers, in cluding all the documents connected with a peerage case which is now before Parliament, and which were kept in the Attorney-General's chambers, have been destroyed. Mr. Follett, brother of Sir William Follett, who occupied Chambers in No. 13, and who has been for some time confined to bed with rheumatism, would have perished in the flames, but for the assistance of some friends who remembering his helpless condition, broke into his apartments, and succeeded in conveying him in safety to brother's chambers. Too much praise cannot be given to Mr. Braidwood and the police of the F Division, for the activity with which they exerted themselves. A party of Artillerymen under the command of Captain Dixon, was also in attendance, and gave most efficient assistance. Owing to their combined exertions, a large portion of the furniture of the different chambers was saved. The following are the names of the gentlemen who have been sufferers by the fire, and whose offices arid chambers have been destroyed :—Mr. Maule, the Attorney- General, Mr. Barker, Mr. Thomas Mess, Messrs. Black lock and Bunce, Mr. Follett, Mr. Cole, Messrs. Wright and Maitland, Mr. Hilles, Mr. Parkley, Mr. Busby, Mr. Boodle, Mr. Martin, Mr. Collett, Mr. Worsley, Mr. Shee, Mr. Pardel, Mr. Whyman, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Whit more, and Mr. Onslow. COVENT•GARDEN THEATRE. We last night witnessed the fourteenth representation of Macbeth at this Theatre during the present season. The tragedy has :been repre scnted, we believe, almost without intermission every Monday since the commencement, with undiminished, nay increasing attraction ; and notwithstanding the powerful counter-attraction of Kean in Richard the Third at the rival house, it was performed on this occasion to a very numerous audience—the pit being crowded, and the boxes, including many of the private ones, nearly full at the rising of the curtain. We hail this as indicating the revival of a taste for Shakspeare's glorious dramas, for the restoration of which such noble efforts have been made at this Theatre. The great and almost unprecedented success which has followed the production of Macbeth here, is fully merited by the splendid manner In which it has been brought out. The accomplished artist who stands at the head of this establishment, has combined the acquirements of the scholar with the genius of the actor, and the taste and liberality of the manager; in order to produce this magnificent tragedy in a style worthy of itself and of its author, he has gathered around him the finest his trionic talent which the stage now affords ; to give the dramatis per_ eon their proper weight ; lie has called the aids and appliances of art, and mechanical contrivance ; and " Borrowed from each muse, and every grace," to assist him in embodying the conceptions of the poet ; and whether in the acting of the principal characters, or in the careful tilling up •f the subordinate parts—whether in tasteful costume, or picturesque grouping or appropriate scenery —or, in a word, the attention to all those minor details so necessary to the general effect of the whole, the tragedy is presented in a manner unknown in modern times, To take one instance, but that a most important one, we declare we never before saw upon the stage, the witches—those dirk, unnatural beings, who throw over the scene the spell of their unearthly mystery, and seem as the portentous shadows of the mighty catastrophe which is to follow. These marvellous creations of the poet's imaginations are here beheld in actual embodiment. When upon " The blasted heath" they stop the Thanes with their " Prophetic greeting," their supernatural appearance—in perfect keeping with the wild gloomy aspect of the surrounding scenery—(on which the gradual outbreaking of light, through the " curtain of the dark," is beautifully represented)—gave a reality to the scene which we never before expe rienced. Not only was the fine old music of Locke performeffin a way which would do credit to any orchestra, but there was preserved through. out a dramatic illusion, as novel as it was striking. And in the incanta tion scene, the forms of Banquo's Royal successors flitted by with a shadowy effect which truly surprised us. Mr. Mactrady's personation of Macbeth Is too well known to need remark. It is a fine portrait of a noble nature, hurried by the impulse of a lofty ambition—first excited by the evil suggestions of witchcraft, and tired to action by the promptings of a sterner, though a female soul—to a course of blood and crime from which there is no escape — exhibiting, in frightful and vivid colours, the struggles of conscience with " the horrible imaginings" of inten d e d guilt—the torturing agonies of remorse—the horrors of a mind " yet young in deed"—the hardening heart even to ruthless cruelty, engendered by familiarity with crime—the affecting retro. spections of forsaken age--the pathetic reflections of a spirit, left desolate in its misery, and vainly yearning for human sympathy—and the bursting forth of warlike energy, roused by approaching danger—darapon fur a moment by the " equivocation of the juggling fiends" — and then lashed to the fury desperation. Perhaps, in one or two isolated parts, some actors may bare surpassed Mr. Macready ; for it is one of the merits of his performance that he do, - ,s not by strainings at effect endeavour to gaits a shallow* applause. But, as a sustained, a true, a consist,nt i m p ersona ti on , it may challenge com p a rison with any of whi c h li v i ng memory retains a recor d . Lady Macbeth was admirably p er f orme d b y Mi ss H u dd a rt (now Mrs. Warner). She is, in fact, the only representative of this grand incar nation of female crime which the stage now affords. Of the " sleeping scene," as it is called, we can say, bol rowing the words of Hazlitt applied to her great prototype in this character—the Queen Tsosedy —Mrs. Siddons—" to have seen her in this scene ..i•ent in our life never to be forgettql,i," 41Pe,, Aw 44414 11 1 Mr. Warde, as Ilanquo, and Mr. A nderson, 4 , 4 VOcolin, ably supported their respective characters. Tl.e tonchiiN scene in which Macduff receives int e lli g ence of the slaughtf4Q tips fa" milt' was acted in a finer s tyl e than we cygv betiekd Mr. Phelps was P a t u r al l "c;,l4'4o6...ettective. His eNktre,Bl.9u of the father's g f igc ellti,iten . great applause. We cannot . conelude without notickn,g that splenditl kkk. AvkltkOt the Scottish Monarch so desperately dtifentl* hk' CWW". Mr. Alecteatly l \yah redly graynd. Ilia Attitudp, when confronted thy, his 4yetsar, his staggerkng nac.kwards with wildly extended a.nis when wounded, the summoning up of his fa6t expiring energies to tt,H, final struggle, his sudden rising on one knee, in the posture defiance undaunted even in death, we feel utterly CHURCH OF SCOTLAND (FroM the Scotsman of Saturday last.) The opinions of the judges regarding the Auchterarder case are exciting great interest ameng all classes of the corn :nullity. It is well known that the prosecutor in this action received a presentation from Lord Kinnoul to the parish of Auchterarder, and that the people, in the exercise of the veto I conferred on them by authority of the General Assembly in 1634, rejected the presentee. The latter applied to the Pres bytery to he taken on trial, es it is called, with the view of ! being inducted to the charge. He contended that it was not competent to refuse this request, on the ground that the Cc. neral Asembly had no power to enact the veto law under which he had been rejected by the people. The Presbytery refused to allow him to preach his trial sermons, thus supporting the authority of the Assembly. The presentee then applied to the Court of Session to have it found that the Assembly had no 71 power to interfere as they had done with the rights of the patron to present a candidate ; that the peoole had no power to reject his presentee ; and that the Presbytery had no t! power to refuse hearing his trial sermons, as the preliminary step to his being inducted into the charge. From this sketch of the case it is evident that the question strikes 1 at the very root of the assumed power of the Church to legis late in matters regarding the appointment of her own minis tors, and hence that it must be a question of immense import ance in its ultimate results. After being debated by counsel at great length, we believe for several weeks, the Judges commenced delivering their opinions on Tuesday, and occu pied the whole of that and the three succeeding days from about eleven to half-past three o'clock. Only eight of the Judges have yet stated their opinions on the case, and five ' have still to follow. The speeches are delivered according to the seniority of the Judges, and the Grst seven Judges oa the roil have all declared in very strong terms against the assumed power of the General Assembly. The eighth in rotation, Lord Fullerton, yesterday declared in favour of the power of the Church to pass the Veto Act; and it is expected that. at least other two Judges—whom it would not be quite decorous . ' to name, as they have not yet spoken—will take the same view of the question. But the case is in effect decided, a majority, of the whole Judges having already spoken, or rather read: - long judicial pamphlets against the assumed power of the Church. It is difficult to foresee all the effects of this. By these opinions the Church has been completely divested or every shadow of independent power, and held up to the. world as the mere creature and abject slaVe of the State. An agita-r tion for the total abolition of patronage will, in all probability,: commence among the more independent section of the Church but after the opinions which have been pronounced, we suspect' there never can be the slightest chance of its being carried the House of Peers, even if it could get through the House , of Commons, of which we entertain great doubts, One re suit, in all probability, will be, that many who care more for religion than State alliance, will leave th e Ch urc h an d join' the Dissenters. Another result likely to arise is, that the" decision will be a source of great annoyance to the Tory Mem bers of Parliament for Scotland, who, with a very few excep tions, will be found determined opponents of the abolition o patronage, while many of their supporters among the lower classes of the constituency will be as strongly in favour of its abolition. There can be no doubt, however, that public opi nion will, to a considerable extent, prevent any great abuse o patronage ; and that, generally speaking, Ministers will be appointed who are agreeable to the people. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. FIRST CONCERT. The Philharmonic Society commenced Site season last night at the Hanover-square Rooms. This institution has been in existence, now we believe, about a quarter of a century; it is composed of the elite of the musical profession of the metropolis, and comprises in its ranks a greater mass of talent than is ever collected together on any occasion probably in this country. Taking these circumstances into consideration, we arc led to expect more from the concerts of this Society than from those of any other, whether produced by the efforts of individual or associated professors. Our expectations, however, we are bound in candour to admit, were not wholly realised by the performance of last night. The result, as a whole, was not such as evidenced by features peculiarly distinct, the experience of a quarter of a century, and the combined talents of the elite . of the musical profession of London. We have heard at pry vincial meetings, to say nothing of the superb performances at Westminster Abbey, far more splendid effects produced by tile aggregated exertions of a large body of musicians; and at con certs in the metropolis we have heard the compositions of the modern masters given with a superior degree of point and accu racy. To what cause this is owing is a question on aitaich we will not presume to pronounce dogmatically, but the - probability is, that the rehearsals are either not sufficient in number or ; not conducted with sufficient care and attention to minor details. We shall be told perhaps, and we know it to be true, that musicians are not sufficiently well paid to admit of their surrendering their time to this irksome, but necessary, specter of drudgery. They ought to give up their time to it, howe ver, and they ought to be adequately paid ; and till this grand desideration is obtained, we may despair of vieing with our continental neighbours in giving to the splendid efforts of con temporaneous science those superb effects of which they arc capable, comp'ete and perfect. But a truce to reflectio o • The concert of last night comm e nc e d w ith B eet h ov en's " Sinfonia Eroica," which was played without any omission, the only curtailment being the omission of the repetition of a • part of one movement. The opening in three-four time was played with much consentaneoas feeling in regard to light and shade; the pianos were delicately observed, and the effect of the crescendos and diminuendos delicious ; but in the sudden bursts and sforzandos the instruments were not always accu rately together at all points of the extended orchestra ; and the occasional breathing of a note in the upper part of the scale of some of the wind instruments reminded us of me chanical difficulty, or the limited nature of human attainment. The wind band, moreover, as usual, was not perfectly in tune. The Funeral March was well executed, and the delightfullY playful Scherzo given with great neatness and point. The effect of the horns in th e t r i o to t h e S c h erzo was ad mirable ; and the very high note; to which the principal of those instruments ascends, played in a masterly manner. The last movement was also finely played. The sustaining of the melody by the wind instruments was superb, and the lower notes of the clarionet in an accompaniment strikingly beautiful. The sinfonia occupied nearly an hour in the performance. Th e second piece was Itossini's quartett o , f rom William rt" „ P " Decisa e la sua sorte," sung by Mrs. Bishop, Messrs. Hobbs. Phillips, and Stretton. There was nothing very particular in the execution of this fine piece. Mrs. Bishop sustained her part very respectably, and Mr. Phillips's fine voice was very ace tire. A concerto on the pianoforte, the composition of Men delssohn, followed. Although very clever music, it was devoid of interest for the generality, and notwithstanding the remark - • ably fine playing of Mrs. Anderson, did not seem to be received with much enthusiasm, We were sorry to hear that the lady mentioned was much indisposed, in fact we should not have gathered it freon her style of performance, which was replete with her accustomed richness and energy. A Recitative and Duette of Paisiello, by Mrs. Bishop and !Mademoiselle Placci followed. It was the first appearance in this country of the last-mentioned songstress. 'l'hc.Duetto was well sung. Mademoiselle Placci possesses a remarkably rich quality of voice, with abundant execution, and appears to be an exquisite musician. Her voice is deep in pitch and sufficiently flexible, hut she appears to sing with some degree of effort. Von W e ber'a • spirited overture to " Euryanthe" concluded the First Part of - the concert. This piece was perhaps better player.l than any of the full pieces. Mozart's well-known Sinfonia in C, opened the Second Part, It is refreshing at all times to hear the pure and chaste effects of Mozart, - after being satiated with the intricacy and ingenuity of th e com p osers w h o succee ded him ; but although fiely:played, it did not strike us that " Jupi ter" (the name by which this composition is designated), " 5 more effective now than we heard it at least twenty years ago. Mademoiselle Placci next sang Mozart's celebrated aria-- " Parto, ma to ben mio," with Mr. Willman's exquisite eta- ri net accompaniment. In this aria the new singer made a decided impression, and was applauded most enthusiastically and unanimously. Mr. Blagrove, in Mayseder's second con certino for the violin, realized our most sanguine expectations. He played in a most masterly style of execution, and with a deli esey, finish, and perfection of tone, that procured for him repeated demonstrations of most cordial approval from the auditory, a nd , concluded amidst shouts o f " b ravo. " S po h r ' s duetto— " Sh° blooms a floweret," sung by Messrs. Hobbs and Phillips, is, , a vast deal of his mu s ic, excee di ng l y h eavy. Some rich effects are produced in the accompaniment by the wind i ns tru• merits, particularly the ho rns an d trom b ones ; b ut, s i ngu l a rly enough, the very same p assages , an d b y t h e very same in struments, are introduced in a ch orus i n hi s " L ast Judg ment." Cherubini's spirited overt ure to " F an i s i ca, " p l a yed ' in fine styl e , as is usua lly t h e case , am i dst the confusion o ( uarties leaving the room, conclud e d t h e concert. The room was filled, but not inco nven i ent l y crow d e d, an • a very general feeling of satisfaction was f e l t at the success of the first m ee tin g of th e seas on . Th e concert was undou b te dly a fine one, b u t it w o u ld b e p resum pti on on t h e part of any o f its members, or friends, to say it did riot exhibit detects . which may be amended at future meeting s , if not " re f orm ed altogether." We should have stated that the or c h estra was con d ure e e d,. with his accustomed energy and gen era l a bili ty, b y Sir G eorg ° Smart ; and that Mr. Francois Cra mer occup i e d the stat i o n assigned to the principal first violi n , es l eader of the band. 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